Spies Wearing Purple Hats: The use of social computing to improve information sharing inside the Intelligence Community of the United States
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2012-10-03
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After the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001, the 9/11 Commission Report identified that the “need to know” culture and the “stove-piping” of agency-centric information in the United States intelligence community were critical factors in contributing towards intelligence failures on that day. Since the report, new methods of information sharing in the community have emerged, including the implementation and use of social computing tools and Web 2.0 technology. However, intelligence failures have continued to occur in recent years, and social computing tools are not being used effectively enough to help mitigate these failures. For example, tools are not required to be used during intelligence production cycles, making them complementary to pre-existing processes. This thesis critically examines the community’s internal use of social computing tools, using recent and online sources from within the community and beyond.
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Information Science, Military Studies, Public Administration
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Chomik, A. (2012). Spies Wearing Purple Hats: The use of social computing to improve information sharing inside the Intelligence Community of the United States (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27854